Mount Doom

The park’s three volcanoes, Mount Ruapehu, Mount Tongariro and Mount Ngauruhoe, provide the setting for Mordor in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies. At 7,500 feet, Mount Ngauruhoe is the youngest, but most forbidding of the three -- ideal as a stand-in for Tolkien’s fictional Mount Doom. While shots of the volcano from afar make for a fine landscape pic, to get the money shot you need to hike up.